Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/06/15

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Subject: [Leica] Re: Green Apples (formerly MacBook Pro)
From: lrzeitlin at optonline.net (Lawrence Zeitlin)
Date: Fri Jun 15 08:12:29 2007
References: <200706151233.l5FCWrmw042324@server1.waverley.reid.org>
 
On Jun 15, 2007, at 8:33 AM, Frank wrote:

> sorry what does "no Hg" mean?
> Frank
>
> On 15 Jun, 2007, at 09:19, Robert Rose wrote:
>
>> the LCD screen with no Hg


Apple is turning Green. The company has decided that it will stop  
potential computer pollution of the environment by minimizing the  
amount of toxic materials in its products. As a first step it is  
replacing the fluorescent screen illuminating lights with white LEDs.  
Eliminating fluorescent tubes means that no mercury will be used. Of  
course this doesn't remove the other toxic materials (cadmium, lead,  
etc.) used in computers but it's a start. Apple will also recycle old  
Mac computers for free.

Al Gore is on Apple's Board of Directors.

Larry Z